Ford tour shows BlueOval City rising in West Tennessee
Sam Kandah, a Ford Motor Co. construction manager, guided the tour of Ford's BlueOval site Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Benjamin Naylor/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The 3,600-acre, six-square-mile campus, where farmland was before May 2022, houses several buildings that will manufacture Ford’s next-generation electric pickup trucks and batteries.
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Sophia Surrett
Sophia Surrett is a recent University of Alabama graduate, where she received her B.A. in news media and M.A. in journalism and media studies. She covers commercial real estate, economic development, residential real estate, restaurant real estate, and hospitality and tourism.
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